re: #283 Walter L. Newton

I’m not insulting you. I’m insulting Pachauri. I’ve never called you stupid or anything like that. I think you are highly intelligent. But you know that.

Walter,

I don’t think you are stupid. I actually rather like you even when you make me crazy. I think you get so wrapped up in whatever point you are trying to make that you lose sight of the real issues and then, once backed into a corner, say really stupid things.

It is really stupid to think that raw data is the subject of FOI to begin with. You do not have a right to just look at my notebooks or files. You could be trying to scoop me. But this is even worse than that. It is a meaningless request made only for political reasons by someone who would not use the data in good faith, and without an intimate understanding of the apparatus and methods could not use it in good faith even if he wanted to.

You have the right to read what I publish.